how about you? what s it looking like for you? it looks like someone took a bite out of the sun. reporter: wow. all right. and so are you guys going to sit here in these comfortable chairs and watch that for, what, the whole hour, two hours? yeah. reporter: is this better than a movie? pretty much. reporter: how about you? yeah. reporter: yeah? cool. and we ve also got my family. they came up from new mexico. i ve got noah. noah schwartz. he s been telling me a lot about the eclipse. noah, come over here. you were telling me earlier about your favorite parts of the eclipse. what are they going to be? totality and then the diamond ring and bailey s. reporter: what is totality? totality is where the moon completely blocks out the sun. and bailey s beads is where there s bits of sun coming out of the moon s valleys. reporter: very cool. thank you so much, noah. and the diamond is where one giant bailey bead is coming
out. reporter: we re related even though he can beat me at chess at 8 years old. the sun is starting to be blocked by the moon. it s exciting to know this is going to happen across the country and we re all going to see the same thing. craig? give that kid a contract. sign him up. gadi schwartz, casper, wyoming. dylan dreyer is a little nervous. you don t need us. you don t need me, sam. you just need him. he knows it all. what s the word? there had been a lot of concern about cloud cover in parts of the country, especially in the path of totality. it is pretty amazing, though, that the cloud cover is only in a few areas across the country. when you re talking about a total eclipse that goes from oregon to south carolina, you would think there s going to be several areas that won t see it, just because of the nature of weather. but it s unbelievable to think that from oregon to wyoming, right down through nebraska, stretching over into most of missouri, we are looking at clea
andr andrea, what is in store for president trump? reporter: first of all, it is historic for him to fly on air force one on a u.s. military plane from riyadh to tel aviv. that is historic. no commercial flights. no military flights can go from riyadh to israel because of the 70-year emnity. there have been reports from y cairo to israel because of the peace treaties. none from saudi arabia. there is a break through in terms of aviation. i should point out the commercially chartered press charter for the white house press corps cannot fly directly. they have to take a lengthy hours long route and detour through cyprus and land in cyrus
his voice on a tape yeah, but that s already been heard since 2004. andr andrea allen, i am actually very familiar with these. again, there s no evidence of this. i m not just shooting from the hip here. i ve actually read the transcription of the tape. there s no comparison in reading the transcript and just spitballing. he s just making things up. okay, okay. let s get this back on track. brian, there was another accuser today, someone who was a frequent contributor on the show. on the o reilly show i don t watch fox enough. but she had been a guest about several years ago. she said o reilly would say things that weren t
this time you have the white house declaring that people who either get in line or go. so, tillerson s going to have to really do a lot to get people on board and working towards a common mission. thank you for joining me. i want to turn now to our own andrea mitchell who knows the state department better than anyone else, certainly here at nbc news, probably most of washington as well. andr andrea, talk to me about what nayyar was mentioning. she says state department employees and diplomats feel they can t speak out under this new administration. is that also what you re hearing? absolutely. thomas contriman, one of the fired diplomats was on our show at noon, saying this is extraordinary. he s welcoming rex tillerson, hoping he gets con fired because he s hoping someone in charge will be able to explain to the white house, to the president and his spokes people, that this it goes back to the